The group performed under several names, most frequently 'Captain Trundlow's Sky Company' or 'Skyco', before selecting the band name 'Squeeze' as a facetious tribute to the Velvet Underground's oft-derided 1973 album Squeeze. Difford and Tilbrook began writing songs together, and soon added Jools Holland (keyboards) and Paul Gunn (drums) to form an actual band. Tilbrook was the only person who responded to the advert. Difford claims that in 1973, he stole 50p from his mother's purse to put a card in a local sweetshop window to advertise for a guitarist to join his band, although he was not actually in a band at the time. The band's founding members in March 1974 were Chris Difford (guitar, vocals, lyrics), and Glenn Tilbrook (vocals, guitar, music). The band's first album of all-new material since 1998, Cradle to the Grave, was released in October 2015, followed by another album, The Knowledge, in October 2017. In 2010, they issued Spot the Difference, an album of newly recorded versions of older material. The band reunited for tours through the United States and United Kingdom in 2007. Squeeze then reformed in 1985, and disbanded again in 1999. The group formed in Deptford, London, in 1974, and first broke up in 1982. The duo were hailed as 'the heirs to Lennon and McCartney's throne' during the band's initial popularity in the late 1970s. The vast majority of their material is composed of lyrics by Chris Difford and music by Glenn Tilbrook, who are guitarists and vocalists in the band. Though not as commercially successful in the United States, Squeeze had American hits with ' Tempted', 'Hourglass' and ' 853-5937', and were considered a part of the Second British Invasion. In the UK, their singles ' Cool for Cats', ' Up the Junction' and ' Labelled with Love' were top-ten chart hits. Squeeze are a British rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s.

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